Richard Borthwick Gorman

Canadian (1935 - 2010)

Richard Borthwick Gorman was a Canadian painter.
Based on ArtValue.ca records, Richard Borthwick Gorman's estimated art value is C$7,000 (*)

Richard Borthwick Gorman's work could be available for sale at public auction with prices in the range of C$2,500 - C$25,000, or even much higher.

From ArtValue.ca records, the highest price paid at auction for an oil painting work attributed to Richard Borthwick Gorman (1935-2010) was C$17,500 - paid for "Cézanne-esque" at Heffel in Vancouver on Thu, Nov 26, 2020.
ArtValue.ca has 92 auction art sale records for their oil painting results, with prices in the range of C$2,500 to C$25,000.

Waddington's Auction House Biography and Notes

Richard Gorman's work was deeply experimental. Early canvases are generally crowded masses of colour and noise, evocative and deeply adventurous works thrown together in a celebratory excess. Thought best known for his abstract expressionist works, would at various times in his career explore monochromatic minimalism, colour-field painting, and, during a period in the 80s, a deliberate turn to landscape. In Fountainhead, a work produced a few years before his death, we are presented with something monumental: a single mass of brilliant teal clouds the canvas, dominating a deep field of brash red. The pigment almost glows with a neon haze as the edges of the colour blur into each other, the surface given tangible weight as the pigments reveal each other in scrapes and thick striations. It's at this border, this jump between colours, where the bulk of the painting's symbolic power lay - a vibrating line emerging out of adjacency and contrast. Gorman has said that, for him, "the colour is the painting." Fountainhead is an forceful example of how this painterly treatment of colour can deliver a cohesive and impactful result.

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